NHL Draft 2014

Yahoo Sports (blog) - 27 Jun 2014
PHILADELPHIA – The 2014 NHL Draft ended with a whimper, as trade activity involving roster players was handcuffed once again by the salary cap. The James Neal trade between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Nashville Predators was the lone blockbuster; ...

NESN.com - 14 Mar 2018
It's not often you select the best player in a draft at pick No. 25, but that was the case, at least so far, for the Boston Bruins in 2014. They selected Czech forward David Pastrnak, and he has become one of the NHL's best young players at 21 years old.

USCHO - 19 Mar 2018
Harvard junior forward Ryan Donato has signed an entry-level contract with the Boston Bruins, and will give up his senior season with the Crimson. Originally drafted by the Bruins as a second-round pick (56th overall) in the 2014 NHL Draft, Donato had ...

OlympicTalk (blog) - 19 Mar 2018
Ryan Donato, the Harvard junior who led the U.S. Olympic hockey team with five goals and six points, has signed a two-year contract with the Boston Bruins. The Bruins retained Donato's rights after taking him in the second round of the 2014 NHL Draft ...

NBCSports.com - 19 Mar 2018
The lowest-impact “taking care of business” game comes for the Nashville Predators, who currently top the NHL with 104 standings points. Beating the Sabres is all about widening leads in the division, conference, and league; getting a victory here will ...

Die By The Blade - 19 Mar 2018
Victor Olofsson was selected in the seventh round (181 overall) of the 2014 NHL Draft by the Buffalo Sabres. We haven't seen a lot of late round diamond in the rough selections come through the Sabres prospect pipeline. They may finally have one on ...

NBCSports.com - 19 Mar 2018
NBCSN's coverage of the 2017-18 season continues on Monday night when the Los Angeles Kings visit the Minnesota Wild. Puck drop is scheduled for 8 p.m. ET. You can catch all of the action on NBCSN or on our Live Stream. If there's one thing the Kings ...

Sportsnet.ca - 06 Mar 2018
Hockey fans love to review, rank and debate draft classes. Is this year's any good? Was 2003 better than 1979? How does the Oilers' class of 1980 hold up against the Red Wings' haul in 1989? But what about the guys who make those draft picks? Each year ...

Sportsnet.ca - 15 Mar 2018
Already with an unprecedented collection of youth (as Sportsnet's Iain MacIntyre wrote about earlier this season), Vancouver will add another top-level prospect in the early stages of the 2018 NHL Draft. After finishing in a bottom three spot in the ...

Eyes on Isles - 18 Mar 2018
What was most frustrating about Devon Toews's season-ending shoulder injury this year was he was about to be called up to the big club and make his NHL debut. Unfortunately, that won't happen until next season. The Isles fourth-round selection of the ...

NBCSports.com - 19 Mar 2018
According to the Ottawa Citizen, the four billboards will be up for two weeks and a fifth will go up for one week on April 2. It's been a strange year in Senators land. They went from being within a goal of reaching the Stanley Cup Final to having ...

Detroit Free Press - 18 Mar 2018
Patience isn't easy, and no hockey team wants a marketing slogan that says, “Please wait five years. Probably more.” Building a contender is time-consuming, and it can be elusive. It is a trajectory on which the Detroit Red Wings are in the beginning ...

CBC.ca - 15 Mar 2018
Blackhawks courting Sikura. When the U.S. college free agent season is open for business, teams will use any advantage to land a player who could help the cause. These days, however, there are two kinds of U.S. college free agents NHL teams compete for ...

Sportsnet.ca - 16 Mar 2018
Most players don't survive in the National Hockey League into their 30s. Virtanen, the 21-year-old Vancouver Canucks winger, is only in his second year at the University of Travis Green. The Education of Jake is not a summer course. The sixth-overall ...

Eyes on Isles - 20 Feb 2018
Michael Dal Colle, the New York Islanders fifth overall pick in the 2014 draft still hasn't been able to crack the NHL squad. It's been four years since he's been drafted. This isn't about size. At the 2014 NHL Entry Draft, the New York Islanders took ...

Washington Post - 19 Mar 2018
The following summer at the organization's development camp, Trotz told Boyd, a sixth-round draft pick in 2011, that he could have an impact at the NHL level that season. But the Capitals were the healthiest team in the league, and Boyd's NHL debut ...

The Fourth Period - 19 Mar 2018
In unloading 25% of its starting lineup, the Rangers stockpiled draft picks, prospects and young NHL proven players like Vladislav Namestnikov and Ryan Spooner, who are both RFAs at season's end. As of right now, the Rangers have seven picks in the ...

New York Post - 17 Mar 2018
Francis had been on the job for only a couple of months prior to the 2014 entry draft, so maybe you can't pin it on him that the club selected defenseman Haydn Fleury seventh overall, one slot ahead of the Maple Leafs selecting William Nylander and two ...

NBCSports.com - 18 Mar 2018
Sportsnet's John Shannon reported Saturday that the process of replacing former GM Ron Francis is being put on hold for the time being, citing that owner Tom Dundon needs more time. “Tom hasn't had the time he needs to do face to face interviews and ...

The Boston Globe - 14 Mar 2018
Northeastern cocaptains Dylan Sikura and Adam Gaudette, along with Harvard's Ryan Donato, were announced Wednesday as three of the 10 finalists for the Hobey Baker Award, given annually to college hockey's top male player. Sikura leads the Huskies with ...

The Daily Herald - 19 Mar 2018
The Everett Silvertips played the first Western Hockey League game in franchise history on Sept. 19, 2003, losing at Kamloops 4-1. They completed their 15th regular season Saturday with an 8-1 domination at Victoria that clinched the franchise's sixth ...